The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus | Quanta Magazine

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail.

Cosmic images from the world's largest digital camera are so big they require a 'data butler'

The Rubin Observatory's enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different "brokers" and, indeed, a butler of sorts.

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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Orbitviewer App - New 3D, interactive visualization of planets and minor planets in our Solar System lets you explore Rubin discoveries in real time

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Orbitviewer App

Things Named After Carnegie Astronomer Vera Rubin

Long before Carnegie astronomer Vera Rubin was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1993, the scientific community had come to understand her groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the universe. In addition to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, she is immortalized in a number of other astronomical objects, awards, and projects.

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